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He was inflicting on him that frightful living death, that death beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys.
Les Miserables 2008
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He was inflicting on him that frightful living death, that death beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys.
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He was inflicting on him that frightful living death, that death beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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He never overlooked an opportunity to help his old comrades in the "galleys."
Mr. Bingle George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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Christian opponents) the contest at Prevesa was far the most important ever fought by those strange oar-propelled vessels known as galleys.
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey
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